Plumber pleads guilty to theft from Potomac home — Gazette.Net

A local plumber accused of stealing jewelry from a home in Potomac while on a service call pleaded guilty to a charge of theft on Monday .

Matthew Christian Trigger, 36, of Frederick initially was charged with theft of between $10,000 and $100,000 in October after a 68-year-old woman reported that six pieces of jewelry, worth $40,500, had gone missing after Trigger came to her home in September.

Trigger pleaded guilty to a lesser charge theft of under $10,000 for taking the two pieces of jewelry that police could confirm had been in Triggers possession a 36-inch woven gold chain necklace and a Canadian coin necklace with an 18-karat gold chain.

Triggers attorney, Rosalyn Tang, told Montgomery County District Court Judge Eugene Wolfe on Monday that her client was completely embarrassed and completely ashamed of his actions, and that Trigger had been driven to steal by an addiction to the painkiller Percocet that he developed after injuring his hand. She also said Trigger vehemently denied stealing the other four items police accused him of taking.

Trigger was employed by Michael & Son Services until late September, when he lost his job because of the charges against him, Tang said.

Wolf gave a Trigger a suspended sentence of 18 months in jail as well as three years of supervised probation. He also ordered Trigger to complete a drug treatment program.

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